Unix Backup & Recovery [With CD-ROM]

By W. Curtis Preston

"Unix Backup & Recovery" provides a complete overview of all facets of Unix backup and recovery, and offers practical, affordable backup and recovery solutions for environments of all sizes and budgets. The book begins with detailed explanations of the native backup utilities available to the Unix administrator, and ends with practical advice on choosing a commercial backup utility.This book: Describes the features, limitations, and syntax of Unix backup and restore utilities, (including dump, tar, cpio, dd, GNUtar, and GNUcpio) for many popular versions of Unix, including AIX, Compaq Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO, Solaris, and LinuxProvides instructions for installing and configuring freely available backup systems such as AMANDAIncludes ready-to-run shell scripts that automate live backups of Informix, Oracle, and Sybase databasesPresents step-by-step recovery procedures for Oracle, Informix, and SybasePresents step-by-step "bare-metal" disaster recovery procedures for AIX, Compaq Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, and LinuxDescribes the design of "disaster recovery" and "highly available" systemsProvides guidance on choosing a commercial backup and recovery systemDescribes the features and limitations of backup hardware This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565926420
• ISBN13: 9781565926424
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 730 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This is "The" Bible of Backup and Recovery

I wish I had this book available many years ago. I read the chapters almost everyday since I baught it (this one is one of the best books i baught). If you are dealing with Backup and recovery on Unix, High availability etc. This is the book you want. The book has lots of humourus stories about his encounters with backup and restore senarios. I liked the Preface page. The book is all filled with the "right" information...

The Ultimate Backup Reference

Backup and recovery are the quintessential thankless jobs. If you complete them successfully, no one notices. However, any mistakes (whether the fault is yours, a mechanical failure, or some other disaster) will create more attention than a "Wanted" poster on the Internet. It's a well-known fact that every computer system should be backed up regularly. However, the guidelines are a little vague. No one tells you how...

The only book of its kind.

Backup and recovery can be -- let's face it, IS -- a miserable responsibility, and there's never been a way to learn how it's done in the real world, let alone multi-terabyte enterprise environments. This book provides several critical features for anyone whose responsibilities include data storage management:1. It's huge. A vast range of backup and recovery topics are covered.2. It covers the theory and practice of ...

Defininetely the best backup book I've read

I believe that the most important advantage of this book is that it addresses strategic issues first and thus will remain valuable for many years to come.Secondly, it focuses on the basics: - talks about choices and questions one should think about before implementing anything. - explains how to 'sell' backup (actually restore) to management - reminds us that restoration is THE most important objectiveFinally, it was fun...

Finally, an definitive book on an unpleasant subject

I worked with Curtis at a previous employer of mine. You don't begin to truly understand the complete scope of backups and all the issues involved unless you're a certified genius (which he is), and you live, eat, breathe, and drink backups day-in and day-out (which he does).Most admins hate to even think about backups (it's the most menial and unpleasant of all admin tasks), but we also recognize that they're necessary...